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Do I have a drinking problem? Do you?
« on: Sun, 18 November 2012, 23:00:14 »
2 shots, sometimes mixed, sometimes straight. 1 mid dinner, 1 after dinner.

Been like this for years.


How do you guys do it?

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Re: Do I have a drinking problem? Do you?
« Reply #1 on: Sun, 18 November 2012, 23:15:57 »
I'd say that you do have a drinking problem, yes.

Edit: This is how I do it -- A beer with dinner on Fridays

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Re: Do I have a drinking problem? Do you?
« Reply #2 on: Sun, 18 November 2012, 23:19:56 »
I'd say that you do have a drinking problem, yes.

Edit: This is how I do it -- A beer with dinner on Fridays

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Re: Do I have a drinking problem? Do you?
« Reply #4 on: Sun, 18 November 2012, 23:24:45 »
I binge every weekend so, probably.

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« Reply #5 on: Sun, 18 November 2012, 23:25:54 »
Two shots doesn't seem like a big thing. If you're drinking a bottle a day, that's another story.

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Re: Do I have a drinking problem? Do you?
« Reply #6 on: Sun, 18 November 2012, 23:30:58 »
I wouldn't say amount is a good judge, but the ability to stop or not would be.

I feel like an idiot for asking, but have you tried to go a night without?  Or do you find your hand always reaching no matter what?  This type of stuff will provoke a better answer than us trolltypes.

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« Reply #7 on: Sun, 18 November 2012, 23:32:21 »
I think I have a problem, because I don't like to drink unless it's to get drunk. For the most part, I won't drink on a work night because of it, but it has happened before...

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« Reply #8 on: Sun, 18 November 2012, 23:33:00 »
Nah. I wouldn't say you do. Unless its impulsive and uncontrolled.
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Re: Do I have a drinking problem? Do you?
« Reply #9 on: Sun, 18 November 2012, 23:35:51 »
I wouldn't say amount is a good judge, but the ability to stop or not would be.

I feel like an idiot for asking, but have you tried to go a night without?  Or do you find your hand always reaching no matter what?  This type of stuff will provoke a better answer than us trolltypes.

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« Reply #10 on: Sun, 18 November 2012, 23:37:53 »
Well now that's a different story.
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Honestly you are the only one that can answer that question.
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« Reply #12 on: Sun, 18 November 2012, 23:41:54 »
^It's only a problem if it's a problem?

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« Reply #13 on: Sun, 18 November 2012, 23:48:50 »
The sign that I had a problem was when I was able to drink a 750mL of anything 40% and not get drunk. Now I only drink on Fridays every other week and am once again able to get tipsy. Also, drinking on nights you need to be up early/be somewhere important was another red flag. I am unclear how alcoholism works on different people, as it didn't heavily impact my work output and I didn't depend on drinking to get me through the day, but did find myself drinking large amounts every night. It may have had more to do with long term depression than alcoholism.

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« Reply #14 on: Sun, 18 November 2012, 23:52:48 »
If the drink goes into your mouth and not down your shirt, then it's not a problem ;)

On weekends I have a shot before dinner, and a beer during dinner.

No worse than people who have a glass or two of wine with dinner.
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« Reply #15 on: Mon, 19 November 2012, 00:11:43 »
I was a raging drunk before I turned 21. I quit just after I turned legal and got into hard drugs. I forgot my twenties, spent my 30s rebuilding, and I'm a little excited, a little concerned, for my impending 40s.

Now I drink about 5 drinks a year, never more than 2 a night. I hated drinking and how out of it people get on it, and how selfish it makes them. If I wanna get that separated from the desert of the real, I'd drop acid or mix scrooms with E that was cut with heroin. Drugs are cooler, but only if you know how to ball but choose not to.

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« Reply #16 on: Mon, 19 November 2012, 00:20:50 »
2 drinks a day is consider stable even by health association standards.

I wouldn't worry about it.

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« Reply #17 on: Mon, 19 November 2012, 00:22:30 »
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Re: Do I have a drinking problem? Do you?
« Reply #18 on: Mon, 19 November 2012, 00:25:17 »
I think I have a problem, because I don't like to drink unless it's to get drunk.
Feels like kind of a waste otherwise.. Like buying an expensive meal and it doesn't make you feel totally full.. why bother at all?

I used to go out every weekend, haven't been out for like a month or more now. I don't drink at home or anything like that and I don't drink alone.
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« Reply #19 on: Mon, 19 November 2012, 00:28:25 »
<3 drugs.

2 shots isn't what you have to worry about, it's your psychological dependency on it.

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« Reply #21 on: Mon, 19 November 2012, 07:12:25 »
I binge every weekend so, probably.
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« Reply #22 on: Mon, 19 November 2012, 08:06:39 »
2 shots, sometimes mixed, sometimes straight. 1 mid dinner, 1 after dinner.

Been like this for years.


How do you guys do it?

what? 2 shots a day with dinner and you think you have a drinking problem?




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« Reply #23 on: Mon, 19 November 2012, 08:28:28 »
Not funny Rayuki.

@tp4tissue: One glass of wine a day is actually considered healthy, so I would consider 2 shots not that much different.
The main problem would be if you cannot stop as others have said.

I never drank alcohol, maybe 5 glasses a year or one drink a month at most. Now I am in Berlin for an exchange and I drink a lot more, but never to the point of getting drunk. At worst I got a little bit tipsy.

I do notice that my resistance is increasing though. Where I at first would feel a big Long Island Iced Tea, I now can still drink 2 shots afterwards and not feel a thing.
It does help that I am really tall and cycle a lot.

Personally I only drink it for the taste, but most people around me do it to get drunk. Fine.
As long as you can stop and not feel the need to drink something or if it does not cause any friction anywhere in your life I would say you are fine. Just experiment for a week or so and see if it is just a big habit or an actual addiction.

I know that if I find something I like I usually keep doing it until it is too much. Then I go cold turkey for a month or so and everything is fine.
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« Reply #24 on: Mon, 19 November 2012, 09:47:13 »
2 drinks a day is consider stable even by health association standards.

I wouldn't worry about it.

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« Reply #25 on: Mon, 19 November 2012, 10:14:26 »
It's red wine that's OK to have a glass of everyday, for some crazy reason I can't remember. I think that sort of testing is slanted toward the desire to make drinking everyday tolerable and OK with god. I don't feel the body NEEDS anything that was invented after the human brain was, but want is a different animal.

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« Reply #26 on: Mon, 19 November 2012, 10:16:46 »
I don't drink much anymore...





But when I do, I prefer Dos Equis.
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« Reply #27 on: Mon, 19 November 2012, 10:38:30 »
wow I can't believe how many gh'ers are unaware of the benefits of drinking 1-2 good craft beers or glasses of red wine a day.  So much mindless regurgitation of DARE brainwashing, thanks public schools...

you should read this: http://www.everydayhealth.com/healthy-living/0315/tap-into-beers-health-benefits.aspx or this: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-2096454/A-pint-day-keeps-doctor-away--YES-mean-beer.html

sorry tp, I don't think liquor has any benefits.

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« Reply #28 on: Mon, 19 November 2012, 10:49:37 »
^Is it still beneficial to drink 1-2, followed by 1-2, followed by 1-2, followed by 11-12?

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« Reply #30 on: Mon, 19 November 2012, 11:18:48 »
A famous quote from my 87 year old grandfather:

"You'll never die from drinking beer."
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« Reply #31 on: Mon, 19 November 2012, 11:22:45 »
I never touched another drop of reds, after that 1991 Cabernet this January  :cool:

Have yet to find another bottle which doesnt taste like detergent  :)) :))
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« Reply #32 on: Mon, 19 November 2012, 11:23:41 »
^Is it still beneficial to drink 1-2, followed by 1-2, followed by 1-2, followed by 11-12?

No man, that's joints.

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« Reply #33 on: Mon, 19 November 2012, 11:24:32 »
^Is it still beneficial to drink 1-2, followed by 1-2, followed by 1-2, followed by 11-12?

No man, that's joints.

Blunts > joints
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« Reply #34 on: Mon, 19 November 2012, 11:27:27 »
Since you are asian, do you get wasted off those 2 shots?
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« Reply #35 on: Mon, 19 November 2012, 12:24:40 »
I definitely have a drinking problem.  That is why I quit back in 1991 (10 Dec 1991, to be exact).

I still think about taking a drink EVERY DAY.

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« Reply #36 on: Mon, 19 November 2012, 12:31:29 »
Blunts > joints

Word life! The White Owl Peach in a 2 pack is my norm.

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« Reply #37 on: Mon, 19 November 2012, 12:33:12 »
I definitely have a drinking problem.  That is why I quit back in 1991 (10 Dec 1991, to be exact).

I still think about taking a drink EVERY DAY.

That is how I am with morphine, but it hasn't been quite that long yet.

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« Reply #38 on: Mon, 19 November 2012, 13:50:39 »
I definitely have a drinking problem.  That is why I quit back in 1991 (10 Dec 1991, to be exact).

I still think about taking a drink EVERY DAY.

That is how I am with morphine, but it hasn't been quite that long yet.
I tried morphine once and was in such agony over not being able to urinate I never had a desire to try it again. All lies that it kills the pain, I literally felt like my kidneys were being stabbed through with a knife.

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« Reply #39 on: Mon, 19 November 2012, 14:35:58 »
You have to be allergic. Nearly ever pain killer is opiate based, so you need to get checked for that allergy because it could kill you if you ever need emergency care.

Morphine makes you not poop, but the **** (penis) remains unaffected except it tends to fall asleep while you're high.
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« Reply #40 on: Mon, 19 November 2012, 14:50:32 »
I don't think you got a drinking problem -_-...
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« Reply #41 on: Mon, 19 November 2012, 14:58:25 »
Since you are asian, do you get wasted off those 2 shots?

LOL, no, I only get a little calming effect from it. As I've said, been doing it for years now.

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« Reply #42 on: Mon, 19 November 2012, 14:58:50 »
I don't think you got a drinking problem -_-...

Hurray, I just had a shot to celebrate confirmation of "not" having a drinking problem.

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« Reply #43 on: Mon, 19 November 2012, 15:05:08 »
isn't a drinking problem, only become a problem, when its a problem?

if you have a shot of something after and druring dinner, how's that a problem?

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« Reply #44 on: Mon, 19 November 2012, 16:59:16 »
Was it WC Fields who said "I have a drinking problem, 2 hands but only one mouth"?

Drinking in moderation has never been proven detrimental, but binging is surely bad for you.

If sleep is the issue, get some melatonin tabs and take one an hour before bedtime, if you anticipate having trouble sleeping.

It is a natural sleep hormone (I am a big guy and still find that the 1 mg tabs are plenty, the 3 mg must be for horses) but don't take one in the middle of the night or you will have trouble waking up the next morning!

Much cheaper than drinking, too. But don't drive on it, really. It hits in about 45 minutes and you are almost sure to drop off.
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« Reply #45 on: Mon, 19 November 2012, 17:25:26 »
Was it WC Fields who said "I have a drinking problem, 2 hands but only one mouth"?

Drinking in moderation has never been proven detrimental, but binging is surely bad.

yeah but thats really hard to define by any meaningful measure, I think in the UK they call binge drinking anything more than 2pnts which means the media can call every teenager a binge drinker...

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« Reply #46 on: Mon, 19 November 2012, 18:58:35 »
Was it WC Fields who said "I have a drinking problem, 2 hands but only one mouth"?

Drinking in moderation has never been proven detrimental, but binging is surely bad.

If sleep is the issue, get some melatonin tabs and take one an hour before bed if you anticipate trouble sleeping.

It is a natural sleep hormone (I am a big guy and still find that the 1 mg tabs are plenty, the 3 mg must be for horses) but don't take one in the middle of the night or you will have trouble waking up the next morning!

Much cheaper that drinking, too.

Are they really cheaper than 2 shots of vodka?  I get the rot gut kind usually. I only spring for svedka or anything nicer on special occasions.

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« Reply #47 on: Mon, 19 November 2012, 20:02:28 »
Vodka = alcoholic. Better switch to Thunderbird or Maddog 20/20.

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« Reply #48 on: Mon, 19 November 2012, 20:24:47 »
Melatonin is really great. The body produces it naturally at night to tell itself to go to bed. It is used extensively to work around jet lag by forcing sleep cycles.

I buy a bottle of 50 or 100 at Wal-Mart for $5-$8 or something, so that is something like a dime per pill. I have never run across any form of alcohol that cheap.

Drinking one or 2 beers per night is not binge drinking. Drinking the same weekly amount, but all in one night, is.
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Re: Do I have a drinking problem? Do you?
« Reply #49 on: Mon, 19 November 2012, 20:36:58 »
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2 shots, sometimes mixed, sometimes straight. 1 mid dinner, 1 after dinner.
no
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2 shots, sometimes mixed, sometimes straight. then after that I can't stop myself so I keep drinking till the bottle is empty and I tell at my wife and kids
yes

not trying to make a joke of it, but IMO you do not have a problem in any way shape or form
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